Educating European Citizenship: Elucidating Assumptions about Teaching Civic Competence

Autor/in	Bengtsson, Anki
Titel	Educating European Citizenship: Elucidating Assumptions about Teaching Civic Competence
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 13 (2015) 6, S.788-800 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1478-2103
DOI	10.1177/1478210315595785
Schlagwörter	Citizenship Education; Educational Policy; Student Attitudes; Cultural Pluralism; Foreign Countries; Policy Analysis; Accountability; Teacher Education; Discourse Analysis; Philosophy; Governance; Cultural Awareness; Cultural Differences; Higher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Schülerverhalten; Kulturpluralismus; Ausland; Politikfeldanalyse; Verantwortung; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Diskursanalyse; Philosophie; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Kultureller Unterschied; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	In recent years, the idea of the contribution of education to citizenship has been reinitiated. The purpose of this paper is to investigate constructions of citizenship as they are articulated in European policy documents on teacher education. It is indicated that the normative form of active citizenship is put into play through the individual and her or his actions, which is centred on learning. Drawing on Foucault's analytic approach to problematization and Foucauldian methods of analysing policy problematizations of a certain problem, this study draws attention to the discourse of active citizenship and technologies of accountability that are utilized to shape teaching civic learning. It is suggested that citizenship is constructed as a learning problem, which motivates young people in school to reflect on their skills and competences. It is also from these capacities that their attitudes towards cultural diversity are assumed to be developed. Thus, in the formation of citizenship, emphasis is laid on the individual's capacity for learning, which is also mobilized in narratives of the construction of Europe. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01